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https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v22i0.4127
A Second Exodus: Ethiopian Jews in Israel Between Religion, Nation and State
Marva Shalev Marom
orcid.org/0000-0001-5889-2572
; Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies Graduate School of Education Stanford University 487 Lausen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Sažetak
Questions about Jewishness, Judaism, and the Jewish people have been topics of
millennia-long debates. In this paper, I focus on the formation of social hierarchies in
Israel based on skin-color to argue that there is unresolved yet consequential tension
between definitions of Jewishness as a religious tradition, a national identity, and a
state apparatus. I embrace the perspective of Ethiopian Jews, whose identities were
reframed in Israel as Blacks, to illustrate how this tension placed dark-skinned
immigrants beyond the scope of both Jewish religious tradition as well as national
identity, to become the marginalized inhabitants of the Jewish State. Thereby I
describe and examine two state-imposed processes in which Israel’s Rabbinate
plays a central role: 1) Israel’s demand that Ethiopian Jews convert to Judaism in
order to be accorded citizenship. 2) Israel’s demand that Ethiopian Jewish children
attend a segregated Jewish Orthodox public-school system, to acquire and cultivate
a particular national identity. State-sponsored schools have become the basis for
both religious and national identity education and re-education.
Ključne riječi
Jewish nationalism; immigration; religious (re-)education; Skin Color; Zionism
Hrčak ID:
248117
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Datum izdavanja:
17.12.2020.
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